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enConservatives Should Be Wary of Andrew Cuomo’s Anti-BDS Proclamationhttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/436275/andrew-cuomos-anti-bds-order-new-york-agencies-must-divest-companies-boycotting
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<p><span class="drop">T</span>he Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement will be familiar to anyone politically active on a college campus. Spearheaded by anti-Zionist activists, the movement aims to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israeli goods and businesses as a retaliation for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The movement’s national prominence was escalated significantly on Sunday, when <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-audio-photos-rush-transcript-governor-cuomo-signs-first-nation-executive-order-directing" target="_blank">Governor Andrew Cuomo announced</a> that the state of New York would no longer do business with firms that allied themselves with the BDS movement. Cuomo advertised the announcement, and the executive order enacting it, as a show of solidarity with Israel: “If you boycott Israel, New York will boycott you. . . . If you sanction Israel, New York will sanction you, period.”</p>
<p>But Cuomo’s executive order in fact treads on thorny ground. Conservatives have often criticized left-wingers for boycotting Chick-fil-A in the wake of the company’s donations to anti-same-sex marriage groups and comments made by its CEO. In some places, politicians tried to throw state power behind these boycotts — in Boston and Chicago, bans on the fast-food chain were proposed, and the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/26/business/la-fi-mo-san-franciso-mayor-to-chickfila-keep-out-20120726" target="_blank">mayor of San Francisco</a>, where the chain had no outposts, “strongly recommend[ed] they not try to come any closer,” saying that the chain was opposed to San Francisco’s “values.” Not to mention, of course, the many efforts at universities across the country to kick Chick-fil-A off their campuses. Those efforts, conservatives argued, represented an affront to free expression. And maybe more. In a post at the Volokh Conspiracy, UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh <a href="http://volokh.com/2012/07/25/no-building-permits-for-opponent-of-same-sex-marriage/" target="_blank">argued</a> that any government attempt to deny Chick-fil-A a permit based on the views of its owner would be a “blatant First Amendment violation.”</p>
<p>The same logic, it would seem, applies to the BDS situation: By refusing to do business with firms affiliated with BDS, Cuomo is abridging the same freedom of expression that was abridged by the Chick-fil-A boycotts. Whether Cuomo’s actions constitute an actual First Amendment violation — as opposed to the violation of a broader principle of social norms — is debatable, given that the state government is under no obligation to contract with anyone in the first place. Either way, the move certainly threatens freedom of conscience. That should give us pause, regardless of whether or not one agrees with Cuomo on the underlying political question. Going forward, businesses will be denied government contracts solely on the basis of their affiliations with groups who advocate for a position Cuomo doesn’t like. Moreover, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/nyregion/cuomo-new-york-israel-boycott-bds-movement.html" target="_blank">the burden of proof will be</a> on businesses placed on a provisional list to prove that they aren’t affiliated with BDS organizations, not on the state to prove that they are. (And it’s not often that both <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/06/andrew-cuomos-executive-order-on-israel" target="_blank"><em>Reason</em></a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/06/05/ny_gov_cuomo_signing_unconstitutional_mccarthyite_pro_israel_exec_order_punishing_bds_boycott_movement/" target="_blank"><em>Salon</em></a>, the former of which described the order as “brazenly autocratic,” are unhappy with the same thing.) Is that a precedent we wish to set?</p>
<blockquote class="pullquote">Cuomo is a governor with what might be described as a particularly imperial streak.</blockquote>
<p>One might have other qualms about Cuomo’s executive order. Cuomo is a governor with what might be described as a particularly imperial streak, one who appears to tolerate only one ideological line. He did, after all, remark that the executive order was a good way to circumvent a “tedious” legislative process. This is the man who, in 2014, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/19/gov-cuomo-pro-life-conservatives-have-no-place-new/" target="_blank">said</a> that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” have “no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.” Earlier this year, he banned non-essential state travel to North Carolina and Mississippi over laws that allegedly discriminated against LGBT people. Cuomo’s executive order fits a trend, one with a clear and persistent message — get in line, or we will use the full force of state government to twist your arm into doing so. It is a mode of operation fully familiar to Democratic governors in the Northeast — Connecticut’s Dannel Malloy also rushed to ban travel to states whose LGBT policies he disagrees with. (Malloy has also, perhaps not incidentally, been <a href="http://ctmirror.org/2016/04/18/speaker-sharkey-calls-malloys-budget-a-personal-hit-list/" target="_blank">criticized</a> by Democrats and Republicans alike for often acting in a kingly manner.)</p>
<p>Those measures were popular among liberals, but the anti-BDS executive order is likely not to be — the anti-Israel lobby often overlaps with the pro-LGBT one. The executive order, then, might serve as a reminder that, once certain powers and the tools to implement them are granted to the people in charge, those tools can be used in whichever way they want. The same person might ban state travel to supposedly anti-LGBT states <em>and </em>might ban the state of New York from doing business with companies that are ideologically aligned with the BDS movement. If there were ever a case for restraint, for restricting the powers granted to government lest they be used for the wrong purposes, this is it.</p>
<p><span class="section-gray"><em>— Noah Daponte-Smith is an intern at</em> <span class="small_caps">National Review</span>.</span></p>
Andrew Cuomo’s Anti-BDS Order: New York Agencies Must Divest from Companies Boycotting Israel
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/article/436275/andrew-cuomos-anti-bds-order-new-york-agencies-must-divest-companies-boycotting" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Conservatives Should Be Wary of Andrew Cuomo’s Anti-BDS Proclamation" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 08:00:01 +0000Katherine Connell436275 at http://www.nationalreview.comThe Left Begins to Realize Their Guys Haven’t Deliveredhttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/388061/left-begins-realize-their-guys-havent-delivered-jim-geraghty
<p>From the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters">Tuesday Morning Jolt</a>:</p>
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<p><strong>The Left Begins to Realize Their Guys Haven’t Delivered</strong></p>
<p>Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Andrew Cuomo in the New York State Democratic primary, <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/democrats-need-a-kick-from-the-left-110979.html#ixzz3DTdBmRDI">contends that the Democratic party “needs a kick from the left.”</a></p>
<p>The dissatisfaction of liberals ought to be useful antidote to glum conservatives convinced that America has sold its collective soul to collectivist statism. But it’s worth noting what Teachout finds most objectionable about Cuomo:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">Our challenge came at an important moment for the Democratic Party. While we believe our party is on the right side when it comes to the issues the nation is facing, it is not wholly immune to the cronyism and corruption that has contaminated the Republican Party. Some of the problems we identified with the Cuomo administration — prioritization of donor needs and support for Republican candidates and Republican causes, for instance — can be found around the country. We are at the beginning of a serious debate about what the Democratic Party really stands for, and we would like to think we have helped to start that discussion.</p>
<p>Notice the casual conflation of “cronyism and corruption” with “support for Republican candidates and Republican causes.”</p>
<p>Is “too much support for Republican candidates” the problem that should the Left? Or merely the aspect of modern Democratic governance that bothers them the most? New York is beginning universal pre-K, even though a lot of schools still stink. The unemployment rate has slid down as Americans leave the workforce, but few would claim this is a booming era of hiring and opportunity. Obamacare has reduced the number of uninsured nationally to a mere . . . <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/us/number-of-americans-without-health-insurance-falls-survey-shows.html">41 million</a>. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/09/14/obamacare-has-failed-to-collapse-but-that-doesnt-make-it-a-success/">Premiums are set to go up about 8 percent next year.</a> Dodd-Frank <a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/213871-dodd-frank-doesnt-end-too-big-to-fail">completely failed to end the era of “Too Big to Fail.”</a> There was <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/static/features/Contract-to-cheat/Companies-win-federal-contracts-while-flouting-labor-law.html?brand=sac">massive fraud in the stimulus program</a>, <a href="http://www.modbee.com/2014/09/14/3537473/our-view-cheating-common-in-stimulus.html?sp=/99/1641/">costing taxpayers “billions”,</a> but the Left would much rather talk about the Koch brothers. Our foreign policy is a dumpster fire right now.</p>
<p>The bigger problem for the Left is that their preferred president and their preferred governors and legislators, enacting their preferred policies, have not generated their preferred results.</p>
<p>Teachout took about a third of the vote in a New York Democratic primary that had low turnout.</p>
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<p class="rtecenter"><em>Above: Governor Cuomo reacted to his primary victory by cackling, “BWAHAHAHA! NO ONE CAN STOP ME NOW!”</em></p>
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<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/388061/left-begins-realize-their-guys-havent-delivered-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="The Left Begins to Realize Their Guys Haven’t Delivered" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:57:24 +0000xiomara10tqhpltbkgi403548 at http://www.nationalreview.comThe High Cost of Andrew Cuomo's Winhttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/387581/high-cost-andrew-cuomos-win-christine-sisto
<p>New York governor Andrew Cuomo won the state’s Democratic primary last night, but a relatively unknown law-school professor may still have dealt a blow to his national ambitions.</p>
<p>As of Wednesday morning, with 99 percent of New York precincts reporting, Cuomo has won just 62 percent of the primary vote. Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law school professor, who has never run for office before and ran a bare-bones campaign, garnered 34 percent. A third candidate, Robert Credico, got about 4 percent of the vote of the vote, meaning almost 40 percent of New York Democrats voted for someone other than their party’s incumbent.</p>
<p>Teachout fared far better than expected, especially considering her limited resources and Cuomo’s huge fundraising operation, which shows some deep discontent on the left with Cuomo’s policies and cooperation with the state’s Republicans.</p>
<p>“Anything over 25 percent against an incumbent with 40 times as much money, one of the most famous names in politics, and a four year’s head start on me, I am really, really proud of what we did,” Teachout <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-counting-victory-teachout-surprise-democratic-primary-ends-article-1.1933632">said</a> in her concession speech.</p>
<p>This isn’t a good look for Cuomo, who’s said to harbor presidential ambitions. “Cuomo lost everything tonight except the nominaiton, “Teachout supporter and former NYC public advocate Mark Green <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/10/cuomo-wins-democratic-primary/">said</a>.</p>
<p>Cuomo will now face Republican candidate and Westchester County executive <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383158/dark-horse-new-york-needs-christine-sisto">Rob Astorino</a> in the November election. Astorino, despite trailing the governor by 30 points in the most recent poll, continues to say the race is winnable. During a radio appearance on Wednesday morning, he <a href="http://jpupdates.com/2014/09/10/nygov-astorino-primary-results-prove-theres-passionate-support-cuomo/">said</a> that there is no excitement over Cuomo on the campaign trail — an understandable observation given liberal discontent with the governor and allegations, currently being investigated by federal prosecutors, that Cuomo interfered with and finally shut down a state anti-corruption investigation he’d pledged to support.</p>
<p>In July, Astorino <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383158/dark-horse-new-york-needs-christine-sisto">told</a> <span class="small_caps">National Review Online</span>, “The things I’m hearing from most people throughout the state . . . is a lot of people just feel like Cuomo hasn’t done anything. He’s not done anything to make it better.” </p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/corner/387581/high-cost-andrew-cuomos-win-christine-sisto" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="The High Cost of Andrew Cuomo&#039;s Win" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:13:55 +0000xiomara10tqhpltbkgi403101 at http://www.nationalreview.comNew York's Governor Andrew Cuomo Is Having a Very Bad Morning.http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/384204/new-yorks-governor-andrew-cuomo-having-very-bad-morning-jim-geraghty
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/nyregion/us-attorney-warns-cuomo-on-ethics-case-.html">Well, that’s the end of New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s presidential ambitions</a>:</p>
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<p>In an escalation of the confrontation between the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the governor’s cancelation of his own anti-corruption commission, Mr. Bharara has threatened to investigate the Cuomo administration for possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering.</p>
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<p>Heck, this might give a shot in the arm to the steep underdog GOP gubernatorial nominee <a href="http://www.robastorino.com/index.php">Rob Astorino</a>. After all, not every challenger gets to use a <em>New York Times</em> headline:</p>
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<p>On page A1, no less. More:</p>
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<p>The warning, in a sharply worded letter from Mr. Bharara’s office, came after several members of the panel issued public statements defending the governor’s handling of the panel, known as the Moreland Commission, which Mr. Cuomo created last year with promises of cleaning up corruption in state politics but shut down abruptly in March.</p>
<p>Mr. Bharara’s office has been investigating the shutdown of the commission, and pursuing its unfinished corruption cases, since April.</p>
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<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/384204/new-yorks-governor-andrew-cuomo-having-very-bad-morning-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="New York&#039;s Governor Andrew Cuomo Is Having a Very Bad Morning." class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:01:50 +0000xiomara10tqhpltbkgi399869 at http://www.nationalreview.comA Cuomo Robocall, and $2, Will Get You a Cup of Coffee at Starbuckshttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/277295/cuomo-robocall-and-2-will-get-you-cup-coffee-starbucks-jim-geraghty
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Perhaps the surprising* results in New York&#8217;s 9th district should dissuade us from believing in the power of endorsements and surrogates (if we ever did).</p>
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Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo posted a 75 percent approval rating in the district, and he recorded a robocall for the Democratic candidate, David Weprin. His endorsement was prominent in Weprin&#8217;s mailer; in fact, considering the size of Cuomo&#8217;s smiling mug, it&#8217;s easy to forget which one is the candidate:</p>
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And Weprin received 47 percent, a mere 28 percentage points behind the most prominent New York Democrat.</p>
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* As of about a week or so ago, the result isn&#8217;t actually that surprising.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/277295/cuomo-robocall-and-2-will-get-you-cup-coffee-starbucks-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="A Cuomo Robocall, and $2, Will Get You a Cup of Coffee at Starbucks" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:42:23 +0000admin277295 at http://www.nationalreview.comRunning Mate Joe Biden, As Truthful As Ever Since Day Onehttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/271075/running-mate-joe-biden-truthful-ever-day-one-jim-geraghty
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Over in the Corner, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/271073/no-obamacuomo-2012-ticket-katrina-trinko">Katrina Trinko pours water</a> on the Obama-Cuomo 2012 rumor, noting that Fox News&nbsp;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/05/campaign-denies-biden-to-be-replaced-by-cuomo-on-2012-ticket/">is reporting</a>&nbsp;that White House aides have shot down the idea that Joe Biden would be replaced.</p>
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Of course, we have to suspect that if there was any serious discussion of replacing Biden, it would be kept under wraps and the move denied until officially announced. Remember the very first thing that Biden said to the public, days before the official announcement back in August 2008:</p>
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<em>&#8220;Hey guys, I&#8217;m not the guy. See ya.&#8221;</em></p>
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Biden didn&#8217;t say, &#8220;wait and see,&#8221; or &#8220;I haven&#8217;t heard anything yet,&#8221; he offered a flat denial. As <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/9042/many-signs-pointing-biden-update-biden-confirmed">some of us pointed out at the time</a>, Biden began his role as Obama&rsquo;s running mate by lying to the press.</p>
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So&#8230; it would seem that statements on the future makeup of the Democratic presidential ticket and whether it includes Joe Biden should be handled with a certain wariness.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/271075/running-mate-joe-biden-truthful-ever-day-one-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Running Mate Joe Biden, As Truthful As Ever Since Day One" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:27:45 +0000admin271075 at http://www.nationalreview.comFor 2012, the GOP Could Face the Ticket of Obama and... Cuomo?http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/271060/2012-gop-could-face-ticket-obama-and-cuomo-jim-geraghty
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Doesn&#8217;t it feel like the day after Independence Day should be a holiday? I certainly think so.</p>
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In the first <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters/">Morning Jolt</a> of the week, beginning this shortened work week&#8230;</p>
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Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. Or as Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., puts it, &ldquo;Happy Fourth of YOU-LIE!&rdquo;</p>
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<b>Does Obama&rsquo;s Reelection Bid Need Some Cuomentum?</b></p>
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<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/that_the_ticket_5XPTo4YnZCqdLnKm3JXKBK#ixzz1RBFixeIR">Fredric U. Dicker</a>, the New York Post&rsquo;s reliably-plugged in columnist covering state politics, offers a bit of a bombshell to join the fireworks for the Fourth of July:</p>
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A Prominent Republican is joining a prominent Democrat in predicting that Gov. Cuomo will become President Obama&#8217;s running mate for vice president next year.</p>
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Former New York GOP boss William Powers, credited with playing a key role in electing Rudy Giuliani mayor and George Pataki governor, was effusive in his praise of Cuomo&#8217;s successes in the just-ended legislative session, and in his prediction of the freshman governor&#8217;s political future.</p>
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&hellip;&#8221;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any doubt Obama is going to pick him as his running mate. The president is in trouble and [Vice President Joseph] Biden doesn&#8217;t bring anything to his ticket. The president will call him up later this year and say, &#8216;Andrew, you have to do this for the good of the country.&#8217; What&#8217;s Andrew going to say, &#8216;No?&#8217; &#8220;</p>
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Cuomo, who saw a flurry of predictions last week in the wake of the gay-marriage victory that he&#8217;ll run for president in 2016, has repeatedly refused to discuss the possibility of higher office.</p>
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He wouldn&#8217;t comment either on Powers&#8217; prediction, but a source familiar with his thinking half-jokingly said this when asked what action Cuomo would take if Obama called to offer him the nation&#8217;s No. 2 position: &#8220;He won&#8217;t answer.&#8221;</p>
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Of course, at this point, this is a columnist quoting two sources who don&rsquo;t know Cuomo&rsquo;s thinking, or the president&rsquo;s, and so it&rsquo;s speculation, filling a holiday weekend column. Having said that, the whole thing sounds rather plausible, especially since it&rsquo;s easy to believe that Obama would like to choose his successor.</p>
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The <a href="http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/07/obama-to-dump-biden-for-andrew-cuomo.html">Jammie Wearing Fool</a> observes a double standard and an earlier chapter of Cuomo&rsquo;s career he might not want scrutinized too closely: &ldquo;It&#8217;s funny how a Democrat can take on public-employee salaries and pensions and there&#8217;s nary a peep from the unions, let alone the media. But when a Scott Walker of Chris Christie does it, all hell breaks loose. So the Democrats could have a ticket with an anti-gay marriage candidate in Obama and a union-busting VP in Cuomo. Finally, some change we can believe in. t&#8217;s probably a given the media will ignore the buildup of the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac fiasco while Cuomo was HUD Secretary under Bill Clinton. He doesn&#8217;t need the messy reminders.&rdquo;</p>
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<a href="http://dougpowers.com/2011/07/04/joe-biden-5/">Doug Powers</a> writes, &ldquo;While I&rsquo;m convinced that Barack Obama will in desperation be forced to offer up a head to voters before the election next year (he sure as hell ain&rsquo;t accepting the blame), but I&rsquo;ll be surprised if it&rsquo;s Sheriff Joe&rsquo;s plug-riddled scalp.&rdquo;</p>
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I wonder if Joe Biden ever brings up these rumors when he meets with the President&#8230; &#8220;Boy, the nerve of that guy Cuomo, putting out a rumor like that, huh? I mean, the vice-presidency is a big f- well, you know how it goes. And things are going so well for us, why on earth would we ever want to change a winning team, right, Barack? I mean, I&#8217;m your lucky charm! I mean, <em>he </em>should try to stay awake for all of these addresses, see how well <em>he </em>does&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/271060/2012-gop-could-face-ticket-obama-and-cuomo-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="For 2012, the GOP Could Face the Ticket of Obama and... Cuomo?" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:42:08 +0000admin271060 at http://www.nationalreview.comNRCC: Even Democrats Outside D.C. Know We Must Cut Spendinghttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/261682/nrcc-even-democrats-outside-dc-know-we-must-cut-spending-jim-geraghty
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If you thought you would never see the National Republican Congressional Committee speaking well of Democrats like California governor Jerry Brown, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, departing Chicago mayor Richard Daley, and New York governor Andrew Cuomo . . . well, here&#8217;s their latest web ad:</p>
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Of course, the point is to draw a contrast between Democrats in state capitals and major cities, who have to balance budgets and who are embracing at least some spending cuts, and Washington Democrats, who have yet to find any serious non-defense cuts that they&#8217;re willing to embrace.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/261682/nrcc-even-democrats-outside-dc-know-we-must-cut-spending-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="NRCC: Even Democrats Outside D.C. Know We Must Cut Spending" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:12:51 +0000admin261682 at http://www.nationalreview.comObama's Approval Hits New Low in New Yorkhttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/254794/obamas-approval-hits-new-low-new-york-jim-geraghty
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A detail at the bottom of <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1318.xml?ReleaseID=1541">Quinnipiac&#8217;s release</a> this morning:</p>
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By a 48 &ndash; 43 percent margin, New York State voters approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing, his lowest approval ever in the Empire State.&nbsp; Democrats approve of the president 75 &ndash; 16 percent, but he gets a negative 12 &ndash; 82 percent rating from Republicans and a &nbsp;44 &ndash; 46 percent split from independent voters.&nbsp; President Obama gets a negative 36 &ndash; 55 percent score from white voters, with positive scores of 93 &ndash; 3 percent from black voters and 71 &ndash; 17 percent from Hispanic voters. &nbsp;</p>
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Elsewhere, the story is Cuomo-mentum:</p>
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By a 59 &ndash; 25 percent margin, New York State voters are optimistic about the next four years with Andrew Cuomo as governor.&nbsp; Even Republicans are optimistic 46 &ndash; 39 percent.</p>
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But only 45 percent of voters say Cuomo will be able to fix state government, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds, while 42 percent of voters say Cuomo will fail in this effort.&nbsp; Democrats are confident 57 &ndash; 28 percent that Cuomo will succeed, but pessimism rules Republicans 57 &ndash; 34 percent while independent voters are split&nbsp;&nbsp; 43 &ndash; 43 percent.</p>
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And voters say 57 &ndash; 33 percent that the New York State Legislature will <u>not</u> cooperate in fixing state government.&nbsp; Democrats split 44 &ndash; 44 percent on whether the Legislature will cooperate in the fix-up, while Republicans say no 63 &ndash; 25 percent and independent voters are glum 66 &ndash; 26 percent.</p>
</blockquote>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/254794/obamas-approval-hits-new-low-new-york-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Obama&#039;s Approval Hits New Low in New York" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:23:33 +0000admin254794 at http://www.nationalreview.comPaladino Endures a Hitting Slump in the Late Inningshttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/249026/paladino-endures-hitting-slump-late-innings-jim-geraghty
<p>
Perhaps the baseball-bat style loses its appeal after a while . . .</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
Despite his lead among the many New York State likely voters angry with state government, Republican Carl Paladino is falling behind New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor, and now trails 55 &ndash; 37 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.</p>
<p>
&nbsp;This compares to a 49 &ndash; 43 percent Cuomo lead in a September 22 survey by the independent Quinnipiac University, conducted one week after Paladino&rsquo;s landslide Republican primary win.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
But perhaps Paladino can turn it around with . . . er, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/10/red-alert-major-carl-paladino.html">a major televised announcement on every channel</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
&#8220;Paladino has purchased a [block of TV time] in Buffalo with the 3 network affiliates at 5:13 with a satellite uplink avail for downstate media. You cannot turn on the major channels with-out seeing Carl.</p>
<p>
&#8220;The broadcast will be rerun in Rochester, Albany and Syracuse (broadcast ) and Channel 12 on LI, plus Westchester Fox cable later that evening,&#8221; Source 1 tells me. &#8220;YNN and NY-1 [were] asked to sell Paladino time for statewide reach &#8212; they both declined. [He is] trying to buy FOX statewide at 5:13&#8230; Simulcast difficult &#8212; may be on at 6 p.m. Huge audience. Then the campaign looked to put it up statewide on a Sports network where few women watch. [It] fell through &#8212; too complicated for simulcast. [About] 45 % of general elections upstate will see it&#8230;. Satellite will reach [approximately] another 30 % through news outlets.&#8221;</p>
<p>
Paladino is taping this message &#8212; whatever it may be &#8212; at 4 p.m., and it will post online at 5:13 p.m., Source 1 said.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)">Hmmm</a><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)">.</a>&#8220;There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.&#8221;</em></p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/249026/paladino-endures-hitting-slump-late-innings-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Paladino Endures a Hitting Slump in the Late Innings" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:57 +0000admin249026 at http://www.nationalreview.comNow It's Just Cuomo vs. Paladinohttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/247872/now-its-just-cuomo-vs-paladino-jim-geraghty
<p>
Carl Paladino&#8217;s mad-as-hell bid just got a bit easier: Rick Lazio had won the Conservative Party nomination but lost the GOP nomination to Paladino. Now word is Lazio is <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/09/rick-lazio-out-of-governors-ra.html">ending his bid entirely</a>.</p>
<p>
This will prevent the anti-Cuomo vote from being split between two candidates. Paladino still faces a steep uphill climb, but that climb looks a little easier today.</p>
<p>
UPDATE: A New York reader says that now, barring some sudden new development, Paladino will be the nominee of the Conservative Party as well.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/247872/now-its-just-cuomo-vs-paladino-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Now It&#039;s Just Cuomo vs. Paladino" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:43:44 +0000admin247872 at http://www.nationalreview.comThe GOP's Empire State of Mindhttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/247531/gops-empire-state-mind-jim-geraghty
<p>Well, New York is either seeing a big Republican surge . . . or it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/cuomo-leads-paladino-2-1-in-new-poll-1.2310998">Arguing against:</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>The Siena Research Institute found [Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew] Cuomo beats [Republican Carl] Paladino 57 percent to 24 percent among registered voters. Conservative Party nominee Rick Lazio is backed by 8 percent, while 10 percent are undecided.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Further arguing against:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A new poll finds Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand maintaining double-digit leads over their Republican challengers.&nbsp;The Siena College poll released Thursday found Gillibrand leading Republican Senate candidate Joe DioGuardi by 57 percent to 31 percent. Schumer has a wider lead over Jay Townsend, 63 percent to 30 percent.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>But I would note that these polls are of registered voters; the shocking ones from <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1505&amp;What=&amp;strArea=;&amp;strTime=0">Quinnipiac</a> and <a href="http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=ddf78dd6-bef1-44e3-af71-225f2d2da637">SurveyUSA</a> are of likely voters.</p>
<p>A Washington Republican points to interesting local results in&nbsp;November 2009 as a possible omen. I <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228674/tale-six-counties/jim-geraghty">wrote at the time</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NASSAU COUNTY</strong></p>
<p>Republican challenger Ed Mangano is, as of this writing, not quite the next Nassau county executive. But he leads Tom Suozzi&nbsp;<a href="http://libn.com/blog/2009/11/23/mangano-up-353-in-recount/">by 353 votes</a>&nbsp;after a weekend of absentee and affidavit ballot counting, a process of counting that is expected to extend past the Thanksgiving holiday.</p>
<p>A county-executive race doesn’t dominate the headlines the way a presidential race does, but Suozzi entered this race the heavy favorite. In a county with more registered Democrats than Republicans, in a state where the GOP is supposed to be dead, an incumbent with a huge fundraising advantage ought to be able to win in his sleep. Perhaps that is a good way of describing what Suozzi attempted; he finished the race with perhaps $2 million in his campaign war chest unspent.</p>
<p>Mangano’s message was nothing fancy; he was a local who pledged to eliminate government waste. As in New Jersey, locals are furious about high property taxes, and in a slumping economy (the local unemployment rate in October was 7.2 percent, compared to 5 percent a year earlier) the general mood was frustration that government was taking more but delivering less. Suozzi had spent earlier years criticizing state government and running a “fix Albany” campaign (part of his failed bid for governor in 2006); Mangano jabbed that Suozzi was “so busy trying to fix Albany, he forgot about Nassau County.”</p>
<p>In the end, Republicans were more motivated to vote than Democrats were;&nbsp;<em>Newsday</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/how-mangano-went-from-long-shot-to-verge-of-victory-1.1572789">found</a>&nbsp;turnout in traditional GOP areas was 32 percent, while it was 22 percent in traditionally Democratic neighborhoods.</p>
<p><strong>WESTCHESTER COUNTY</strong></p>
<p>Rob Astorino is supposed to be the kind of Republican candidate who can’t win in the northeast anymore. He ran a fairly explicit campaign emphasizing fiscal conservatism, depicting the county’s management as wasteful, bureaucratic, inefficient, corrupt, and out of touch. He hammered his rival, telling voters that the incumbent county executive, Andy Spano, “raised your taxes almost 60 percent in the last seven years alone. Mr. Spano has ballooned the annual budget by $1 billion in the past 12 years, from $800 million to $1.8 billion per year. He spends more than 87 nations do, and you pay for it.” Intriguingly, while the pro-life Astorino didn’t put his faith or social views front and center, his conservative bona fides are impeccable:&nbsp;&nbsp;He is a radio host and program director for the Catholic Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio and hosts a Thursday-night program with Cardinal Edward Egan, the former archbishop of New York.</p>
<p>Astorino shellacked the three-term Democrat, 57 percent to 43 percent, in a county where Democrats have nearly a 2-to-1 advantage in voter registration.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a county where Al Gore and John Kerry carried 58 percent of the vote, the county Bill and Hillary Clinton call home. It may be a bit self-serving, but Spano contends that his defeat reflects voters’ anger at Democrats at the state and national level. “It has nothing to do with me, as far as I’m concerned,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/nyregion/05suburbs.html">he told the</a>&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>. “They’re mad at Albany, and Washington.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A big problem for all of the GOP&#8217;s statewide candidates will be money; New York is among the most&nbsp;expensive states to run in. One Republican worried that Gillibrand has a big war chest that she’s going to be putting to use the next six weeks, while DioGuardi doesn’t have much in the bank. &#8220;Anything is possible in this environment but he needs to raise money fast,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>UPDATE:&nbsp;Brian Walsh, NRSC Communications Director:&nbsp;“Since being appointed by David Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand has blindly rubberstamped her party bosses’ out-of-control spending and debt in Washington, and it’s clear that, just like the rest of the country, voters in New York are fed up with the Democrats’ reckless spending agenda.&nbsp; So the message to voters from our candidates in New York is the same as our other Republican candidates across the country which is that ‘if you support the bailouts, support a $13 trillion debt, support government health care and support tax increases in a recession than vote for Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer. But if you believe we need to restore accountability and responsibility in Washington than vote for Joe DioGuardi and Jay Townsend.’&nbsp; It’s clear this message is resonating and we intend to carry it forward in New York and around the country right up until November 2nd.”</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/247531/gops-empire-state-mind-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="The GOP&#039;s Empire State of Mind" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:44:41 +0000admin247531 at http://www.nationalreview.comSenator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York . . . <i>Leading by Only One Point?</i>http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/247493/senator-kirsten-gillibrand-new-york-leading-only-one-point-jim-geraghty
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, unless SurveyUSA had a wildly off-kilter sample . . . New York <a href="http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=87726&amp;catid=37">now has <em>two </em>competitive statewide races</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p itxtvisited="1">Republican candidate for Governor, <a href="http://paladinoforthepeople.com/"><strong>Carl Paladino</strong> </a>is nine percentage points behind Democrat <a href="http://www.andrewcuomo.com/"><strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Cuomo</strong></a>, according a new scientific poll commissioned by Two On Your Side, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the White Plains Journal News.</p>
<p itxtvisited="1">The poll shows Cuomo with 49% of the vote. Paladino has 40%. Eight percent said they would vote for another candidate and three percent were still undecided.</p>
<p itxtvisited="1">There is a 4.2% margin of error.</p>
<p itxtvisited="1">Survey USA interviewed 1,000 adults in New York State on September 20th and 21st.</p>
<p itxtvisited="1">Of them, 867 were registered to vote. Of the registered voters, 572 were identified by SurveyUSA as being likely to vote in the November general election.</p>
<p itxtvisited="1">In the Special Election to fill the final 2 years of Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s term, incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand and former Congressman Republican Joe DioGuardi today finish effectively even, with <strong>Gillibrand&#8217;s nominal 1-point lead</strong> being within the survey&#8217;s theoretical <a>margin</a> of sampling error.</p>
<p itxtvisited="1">Gillibrand leads in the 5 boroughs of NYC but trails elsewhere.</p>
</blockquote>
<p itxtvisited="1">SurveyUSA also finds that in New York&#8217;s general election for U.S. Senate, incumbent Democrat Chuck Schumer leads Republican Jay Townsend 54 percent to 33 percent.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/247493/senator-kirsten-gillibrand-new-york-leading-only-one-point-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York . . . &lt;i&gt;Leading by Only One Point?&lt;/i&gt;" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:21:37 +0000admin247493 at http://www.nationalreview.comIn New York, GOP's Paladino Trails Cuomo by Only 6? <i>Only 6?!?</i>http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/247350/new-york-gops-paladino-trails-cuomo-only-6-only-6-jim-geraghty
<p>
Two shockers from Quinnipiac this morning, each one making the other a wee bit suspect.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1503">In Pennsylvania</a>:&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
Republican Pat Toomey has hit the magic 50 percent mark as he leads Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak 50 &ndash; 43 percent in the race for Pennsylvania&rsquo;s U.S. Senate seat, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters released today.</p>
<p>
Pennsylvania likely voters disapprove 56 &ndash; 40 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, the independent Quinnipiac University survey, conducted by live interviewers, finds.&nbsp; This first general election survey of Pennsylvania <u>likely</u> voters in this election cycle cannot be compared to earlier surveys of <u>registered</u> voters.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
I&#8217;m sure Team Toomey will take it, but a seven-point margin is actually one of the better ones Sestak has seen lately.</p>
<p>
But here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1504">the holy-smokes-can-this-be-real one</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
Republican Carl Paladino, aided by a 4 -1 margin among Tea Partiers, trails New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for Governor, 49 &ndash; 43 percent among likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.</p>
<p>
Only 18 percent of New York State likely voters consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement, but they back Paladino 77 &ndash; 18 percent.</p>
<p>
Cuomo leads 87 &ndash; 8 percent among Democrats while Paladino leads 83 &ndash; 13 percent among Republicans and 49 &ndash; 43 percent among independent voters, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University survey, conducted by live interviewers, finds.&nbsp; This first <u>likely</u> voter general election survey in New York in this election cycle can not be compared with earlier surveys of <u>registered</u> voters. &nbsp;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
I&#8217;ve been lamenting for weeks that a bunch of strong GOP House candidates in New York were going to be hurt by the lack of top-of-the-ticket help or even a competitive statewide race among the big three: the governor&#8217;s race and the two Senate races. Well, Paladino, who&#8217;s pledging to clean up Albany with a baseball bat, looks like he&#8217;s in a competitive race.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/247350/new-york-gops-paladino-trails-cuomo-only-6-only-6-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="In New York, GOP&#039;s Paladino Trails Cuomo by Only 6? &lt;i&gt;Only 6?!?&lt;/i&gt;" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:03:32 +0000admin247350 at http://www.nationalreview.comA Trio of Interesting Polls From Rasmussenhttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/247058/trio-interesting-polls-rasmussen-jim-geraghty
<p>
Interesting bits and pieces from Rasmussen in the past 24 hours . . .</p>
<p>
In <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/indiana/election_2010_indiana_senate">Indiana&#8217;s Senate race</a>, Republican Dan Coats leads Brad Ellsworth, 50 percent to 34 percent. That&#8217;s actually good news for Ellsworth, who previously trailed, 50 percent to 29 percent. A Coats victory isn&#8217;t surprising; what is a bit surprising is that the Democrats further endangered a House seat by persuading Ellsworth to make this Senate bid, and Coats could well help create coattails for three Republicans in House races in this state.</p>
<p>
In New York&#8217;s governor&#8217;s race, Democrat Andrew Cuomo leads Republican Carl Paladino, last seen pledging to clean Albany with a baseball bat, <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_governor_elections/new_york/election_2010_new_york_governor">54 percent to 38 percent</a>. While I wouldn&#8217;t bet money on a Paladino win, that&#8217;s a bit closer than I think most expected this race to be.</p>
<p>
It&#8217;s the same margin &#8212; 54 to 38 &#8212; in <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/maryland/election_2010_maryland_senate">Maryland&#8217;s Senate race</a>, where longtime incumbent Barbara Mikulski leads Republican Eric Wargotz.&nbsp;In Mikulski&#8217;s past four elections, she has won 64.7 percent, 70.5 percent, 71 percent, and 60.6 percent. Obviously, she&#8217;s heavily favored in November, but she may be a useful indicator; well-established Democratic names in deep-blue states can expect to run six points or so behind their previous all-time worst.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/247058/trio-interesting-polls-rasmussen-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="A Trio of Interesting Polls From Rasmussen" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:01:02 +0000admin247058 at http://www.nationalreview.comRunning Against the Status Cuomohttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/246639/running-against-status-cuomo-jim-geraghty
<p>
Well, it&#8217;s not like the New York State Republican party can argue they&#8217;ve earned the loyalty and faith of the grassroots.</p>
<p>
Does Carl Paladino have a steep uphill climb in New York&#8217;s governor&#8217;s race? <a href="http://www.pollster.com/polls/ny/10-ny-gov-ge-pavc.php">Yup</a>.</p>
<p>
But in this environment, when Albany has found the ability to keep pace with Springfield, Sacramento, and the old Trenton for corruption, incompetence, immature bickering, and generally embarrassing behavior,&nbsp;would you want to be the state attorney general and heir to a state political dynasty?</p>
<p>
Or would you rather be the guy running on the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/06/paladino-raging-on-stage-while.html#ixzz0zbdktgDs">message</a>,&nbsp;&#8221;One wants to clean up Albany with a whisk broom. One might even use a mop. Me,<strong> I&#8217;ll clean out Albany with a baseball bat. </strong>That&#8217;s how bad it&#8217;s gotten . . . Albany is a cesspool.&#8221;</p>
<p>
It&#8217;s been a long time since New York had an interesting statewide Republican primary, but 440,000 votes between two not-well-known candidates is pretty encouraging.</p>
<p>
UPDATE: Dan McLaughlin reminds me that as Paladino becomes preeminent, he is expected to have enthusiasms. (Violent content warning below.)</p>
<p class="rtecenter">
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<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/246639/running-against-status-cuomo-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Running Against the Status Cuomo" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:52:56 +0000admin246639 at http://www.nationalreview.com'Where Is This Money Coming From? Who Is Really Behind It?'http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/244345/where-money-coming-who-really-behind-it-jim-geraghty
<p>
The New York State Conservative party just unveiled this ad, featuring gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, criticizing the Ground Zero Mosque* and criticizing Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state attorney general Andrew Cuomo, for supporting it.</p>
<p>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14281857" width="400"></iframe></p>
<p>
* I know, I know, it has a basketball court, too.</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/244345/where-money-coming-who-really-behind-it-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="&#039;Where Is This Money Coming From? Who Is Really Behind It?&#039;" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:35:27 +0000admin244345 at http://www.nationalreview.comRun Away, Andrew, Run Away!http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/243144/run-away-andrew-run-away-jim-geraghty
<p>
No two ways about it, Rick Lazio is a big underdog in New York&#8217;s gubernatorial race. But I love the videos his campaign makes, this one using a bit of long-lost 1990s music with an appropriate chorus, focusing on Democrat Andrew Cuomo going to Charlie Rangel&#8217;s big birthday bash . . . through the service entrance in an effort to avoid cameras.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">
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<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/243144/run-away-andrew-run-away-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Run Away, Andrew, Run Away!" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:44:30 +0000admin243144 at http://www.nationalreview.com'I made a lot of mistakes in my 12 years as governor . . . He was there for every mistake.'http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/230536/i-made-lot-mistakes-my-12-years-governor-he-was-there-every-mistake-jim
<p>
Catch this Rick Lazio video quick, before George Lucas gripes about the music selection, saying that the use of such material is reserved for only classy, appropriate tie-ins, like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zd_khk6zXo">Adidas commercials</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">
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<p>
Mario Cuomo offers a unique potential slogan for his son Andrew: &#8220;I made a lot of mistakes in my 12 years as governor. . . .&nbsp;He was there for every mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>
Hey, thanks, Dad!</p>
<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/230536/i-made-lot-mistakes-my-12-years-governor-he-was-there-every-mistake-jim" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="&#039;I made a lot of mistakes in my 12 years as governor . . . He was there for every mistake.&#039;" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:46:07 +0000admin230536 at http://www.nationalreview.comAndrew Cuomo Will Fight Corruption by Gently Kissing It on the Cheekhttp://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/230151/andrew-cuomo-will-fight-corruption-gently-kissing-it-cheek-jim-geraghty
<p>
I realize former congressman Rick Lazio, a&nbsp;GOP New York gubernatorial candidate, faces the biggest uphill battle since Edmund Hillary. But he&#8217;s got some material to work with, as shown in this recent web video:</p>
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<span rel="schema:url" resource="/campaign-spot/230151/andrew-cuomo-will-fight-corruption-gently-kissing-it-cheek-jim-geraghty" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Andrew Cuomo Will Fight Corruption by Gently Kissing It on the Cheek" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:43:40 +0000admin230151 at http://www.nationalreview.com